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Play TV
File:PLAY TV logo.png
Created byTelemedia InteracTV
StarringJG Murphy, Derval Mellett and Fiona Mulhall.
Country of originIreland
No. of episodes69 (as of August 1 2009)
Production
ProducerTelemedia InteracTV
Original release
NetworkTV3 (Ireland)
Release25/05/2009 –
Present

Play TV is a late night/early morning phone-in quiz TV show produced by Telemedia InteracTV for TV3 Ireland. The show is broadcast live every night of the week, Monday to Sunday, from 12:00am to 3:00am. The show is similar to The Mint. The program is broadcast live from InteracTV's headquarters in Budapest, Hungary [1]

Calling the show

While the show is on air, viewers are encouraged to call a premium rate number in order to give solutions to puzzles being put to them by the presenters. However, there is no guarantee that callers will get through to the studio. Callers must find what is termed the "open line" before they can speak to the presenter. All callers are asked a simple yes/no question beforehand. If the caller gets through, they will talk live to the presenter, and if they give the correct answer they will be put through to another person who will take their details so that they know who to pay. Winners' names are displayed on the Play TV website along with the amount they have won.

Callers who do not get through to the studio are still charged the full cost of the call.

It is alleged that there is a limit of 50 calls per night or 300 calls per month that can be made by any one person. However this appears not to be the case. One person managed to make 185 calls in one night at a cost of €370. [2]

Call Costs

The person wishing to take part in the show must call a premium rate (1516) number. This costs the caller €1.50 from an Eircom landline, regardless of whether or not they get through to the studio. The call costs are more expensive from other operators. Below is a list call costs from selected operators.

Landlines Eircom: €1.50 Perlico: €1.79 Talk Talk: €1.75

Mobile Phones Vodafone Ireland: €1.99 O2 Ireland: €2.00

Complaints

The show has resulted in articles in national newspapers and complaints to the BCC Broadcasting Complaints Commission. As of August 9, 2009, there have been 29 complaints to the Commission with a further four pending. Complaints have included suggestions that some of the puzzles on the show are impossible to solve and that on certain evenings, just a single person out of thousands who called had actually won a prize.[3] The first complaints will be adjudicated on by the BCC in September 2009.

Games

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JG Murphy presents numbers game on July 30 2009

The games range from spot the difference, to making a word out of jumbled up letters, to guessing words when given a clue. The word guessing game may require viewers to identify an obscure object based on its colour, or where it might be found.

On the 30th of July 2009, there was a game based on the theme of Shrek where players were asked add up all the numbers in the picture. No one guessed correctly. The answer was revealed to be 227. This is impossible as one of the numbers in the picture was 232.

On the 31st of July 2009, there was the matchstick game. The premise of the game was to move two matchsticks to form the largest number possible. The correct answer was revealed as 36251 despite it being clearly possible to create bigger numbers such as 36351 and 36551. The correct answer would be 76851. One caller did give 76851 as the answer and was told it was incorrect.

In the conveyor belt game on August 14, the programme stopped taking calls after the 13th caller, for about 1.5 hours after that, the conveyor belt spilt cash into the plastic see through container, during this period at least 6, 50 euro and 100 euro notes fell into this and also 1 - 500 euro note, it could be seen also that approx €80 a minute was falling into this container during the 1 and half hour period, the programme and the presenter had the gall to say that the amount totalled to around €2400, it is impossible for that to be that low a figure as the container was emptied onto the conveyor belt and with the amount of money on display it would be closer to €10,000 and with an average of €80 a minute would push it well past €2400. The presenter also refused to count the amount of money on display. For a further 1 hour after that no calls were taken and several 'moment' countdowns and clocks were used during this period. At the end of the programme it seemed like a caller had been planted in order to give the impression that a call had been taken and for the prize to be given out, the name of the caller was not asked for by the presenter.

Moments and Countdowns

The moment is an important part of the Play TV show. Frequently the games involve a countdown from 10 moments. A moment in Play TV terms is not a regular unit of time. It can vary anywhere from 5 seconds to minutes long. It is always promised that a puzzle will end when the countdown reaches zero moments but usually the game continues regardless. Also 2 minute countdowns are used as well to give the impression that a game is ending imminently thus encouraging more callers to call in.

Presenters

JG Murphy is from Dublin in Ireland. As well as his Play TV presenting, he has featured on local radio station East Coast Radio. [4]

Derval Mellett, from Dublin in Ireland, received her education at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, as well as the Royal Welsh College of Art, Music and Drama in Cardiff.

Fiona Mulhall, from Dublin, has been involved in TV for the past four years. In 2005, she became a regular face on IWW Wrestling as a valet & TV presenter (aka, ‘Fiona Fox’), which was broadcast weekly throughout the UK & Ireland on The Wrestling Channel. In 2006, Fiona continued her presenting experience as a news/links presenter for “LDN Capital TV”, which broadcast on The Fight Network UK throughout 2006-2008. Along with this, she juggled her “day job”, also in TV, as television scheduler for Dolphin Broadcast Services in London. Fiona enjoys music and travel and she looks forward to being part of the Play TV team.

Notes

  1. ^ "InteracTV". InteracTV. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  2. ^ "'Play TV' caller racks up €370 bill". Sunday Tribune. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
  3. ^ "TV3 under inquiry over quiz show complaints". Sunday Tribune. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  4. ^ "New Presenters at 1stoption". 1st Option Agency. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
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